Nikole Hannah-Jones tweets that tipping is a legacy to slavery then deletes tweet

My first time hearing about this and that was just a dumb comment to make.

Next she will say that swimming is racist and should be outlawed.

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My first time hearing about this and that was just a dumb comment to make.

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I agree. Everything is racist.
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i don't remember slaves receiving tips

I hate tipping culture, just charge the damn price. I never had anyone tell me "Oh you are charging $495 for that, let me add on a 20% tip and give you $600" I honestly think you can make service better at restaurants if the waitress wasn't relying on tips and you could have teams serving a room instead of relying on one person per table to handle everything. It just doesn't make sense.

Guides that own their own business are the strangest tip expectations. They charge their price, they get the whole thing. If their price doesn't cover expenses and profit then charge me more up front. Now tipping a deckhand is a different scenario because they don't get paid dick and do most if not all the hard work on offshore charters but I would still like to see them paid fairly and just bill me the appropriate amount to cover expenses.

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I honestly think you can make service better at restaurants if the waitress wasn't relying on tips

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And you'd be wrong.

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TIP means = To Insure Promptness.

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No it doesn't. It means to insure proper service. You're welcome.

She later agreed with a blue check, stating that tipping is how restaurants transfer employee costs to the consumer. Neither realizing that's what every business does, transfer expenses to consumers. That's the entire point.

It's incredible how little basic economic knowledge the folks who want to overhaul our economy have.

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She later agreed with a blue check, stating that tipping is how restaurants transfer employee costs to the consumer. Neither realizing that's what every business does, transfer expenses to consumers. That's the entire point.

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These morons think that paying servers minimum wage would somehow result in

1. More pay for servers
2. No price increases

In reality, for the large majority of restaurants this would mean either fewer servers in staff, adopting the counter service model, or large price increases solely to keep more servers on staff.